The best method is to bury the body. Just as systematically as the body has grown into its present form, it has to be disintegrated.

For nine years He [Bahá'u'lláh] did not see a green leaf. He loved nature. His sensibilities and powers of observation were miraculous. The tips of His fingers were the most sensitive parts of His holy temple.

If you have the perceptive power, as soon as you look in the faces of the people, you can observe what ideals are reigning in their hearts.

When Bahá'u'lláh left Baghdad and without the knowledge of the friends went to Suleymaniyyih, one day He met a boy in the street weeping.

These old veterans of the Cause have been with Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, Constantinople, Adrianople and Acca.

His Holiness the Blessed Perfection has raised the station of woman and hath glorified her before the eyes of all the world.

Napoleon the great conquered Germany and brought under his control its domain but to what result! It was only a temporary victory.

Mankind are naturally heedless and prone to commit injustice and excess. They do not turn their faces toward God and do not let their hearts be swayed by ideal emotions. Like unto the beasts they wallow in the mire of materialism

The gathering of the friends is very good. In one month's time it will be very fresh and green here. This wilderness is where Bahá'u'lláh has crossed.

The first Cause of my happiness is to see your faces radiant with the light of reality and your hearts cleansed and purified with the Water of knowledge. There are two kinds of happiness.

My objects are the establishment of the Cause of international arbitration, the promotion of the oneness of the world of humanity, the conformity of religion with science and reason

This time I want to send you with a new spirit, a new strength, to enlighten California

All are connected by the bond of existence. What greater bond is there than this? Furthermore, none of these can continue to exist independently

Every element in the creation of God exemplifies the beauty and harmony of living, not for ourselves, but for others... It was not given to every star in the heavens to be the first magnitude

The believers of Persia made the greatest self-sacrifice and the trip was made possible. They made large and small contributions

When we were in Bagdad, Constantinople and Adrianople, we were bothered to death by these insects--fleas, mosquitoes and bed-bugs.

Association of ideas is a deep psychological phenomenon. Nowhere does my heart truly rest save in this room where the Blessed Beauty spent His days and nights for many years.

There was once a Jewish merchant in Constantinople who bought many bales of drapery and worsted goods to be shipped to Persia for sale. Each bale was of a different color

All the people are negligent, they are not thinking of pleasing God and spreading the word of God.

A young man who was graduated from the college applied for a position of teaching in a village far away from civilization.

This is the lake around which His Holiness Christ often walked, over which He often sailed. The site wherein He called His apostles into active service is very near.

There are two kinds of standing within: the first is as the standing or continuing, as water in an earthen bowl